When	Where	Participants
13.06.2026	Avrtikl Bookshop	10
10:00 – 15:00	20B Aleksandar Stamboliyski Blvd

 

A Matter of Adaptation surveys the leftovers of a society completely obsessed with producing, storing, archiving, posting, screenshotting, backing up, reposting, and doom-scrolling data. Entire cultures now live inside servers, timelines, cloud drives, forgotten passwords, and “link in bio” pages that pretend to be permanent but are actually hanging on by a thread. More fragile than the papyri of the ancient world, this giant digital archive survives only as long as the technologies and economic systems supporting it continue functioning. One server outage, one platform collapse, one expired subscription, and suddenly an entire civilisation becomes lost media.

The workshop begins with this anxiety and questions: What do we actually leave behind after posting ourselves online for decades? Which parts of internet culture survive long enough to become future mythology? What happens when screenshots become archaeological evidence, or when a TikTok audio is treated like a sacred chant from a lost society? Perhaps the blurry meme with impact font becomes more historically valuable than the official government archive. Perhaps the girl explaining her situationship lore in a 7-part TikTok survives longer than contemporary philosophy.

Within the workshop, internet remnants, interface fragments, AI-generated slop, clickbait spirituality, meme debris, failed utopias, and wellness scams become raw material for constructing fictional artefacts from the near future. Using the method of the Autopsy Table, participants will dissect and recombine these digital leftovers into fictional near-future artefacts that feel simultaneously familiar and deeply corrupted, like something recovered from a broken hard drive in the ruins of a server farm.

Gjorgji Despodov is a multidisciplinary artist from North Macedonia, currently based in The Hague, Netherlands. He holds a master’s degree in Non Linear Narrative from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. In 2025, he received the STRP Young ACT Award for his graduation project.

Despodov’s practice blends investigative methods with playful elements, rooted in storytelling, deeply engaging with the internet and digital culture. His work often employs familiar objects that reflect personal experiences while opening portals into speculative, world-building narratives. His work exists on the threshold between physical and digital environments.

He refers to his projects as provocotypes: prototypes that do not aim to resolve but to provoke, that insist on incompleteness as a method of critique. Unlike functional prototypes that strive toward optimisation, provocotypes thrive in friction. They are not answers but interruptions, creating spaces for dialogue and critical reflection.

Please note that your place is only reserved at the moment you have already paid for your ticket. This can be done via online payment or on-site at the KO-OP art space.